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###Live Caption:Jiang Xiaoyu, vice president of the 2008 Olympics organising committee, holds the Olympic flame on its arrival in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 1, 2008. The Olympic flame starts a month long global tour Tuesday, expected to be a magnet for protests against China's government. (AP Photo/Nikita Basov)###Caption History:Jiang Xiaoyu, vice president of the 2008 Olympics organising committee, holds the Olympic flame on its arrival in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 1, 2008. The Olympic flame starts a month long global tour Tuesday, expected to be a magnet for protests against China's government. (AP Photo/Nikita Basov)###Notes:Jiang Xiaoyu###Special Instructions:

The Beijing Olympic torch will travel about 6 miles along San Francisco's waterfront, according to long-awaited route details released on the same day city supervisors approved a sharply worded resolution blasting China's human rights record.

People who plan to protest the torch's presence in the city had demanded for weeks to know its route so they could begin organizing the thousands of demonstrators expected when the Olympic symbol is carried through the streets on April 9.

Protesters are expected to gather in large public squares and along the route, which will start at McCovey Cove, run both ways along the Embarcadero and make a short turnaround in the Marina district. The torch lighting ceremony in Greece was disrupted by demonstrators last week, and protests are expected in cities the torch visits around the world.

At City Hall, Supervisor Chris Daly, who introduced the resolution critical of China, encouraged the audience that packed into the Board of Supervisors' chambers Tuesday to be on the streets and show disdain for the Chinese government during the torch relay.

His resolution, which passed 8-3, calls for an international investigation of China's recent crackdown on dissenters in Tibet and encourages the city's official representative at the torch festivities to accept the flame with "alarm and protest."

"The eyes of the world will be on San Francisco, and, let's be honest, if there is not alarm and there is not protest in San Francisco when the torch arrives here, that too would be news, and that would be San Francisco complicit in the human rights violations that are happening in China and around the world," Daly said.

Rally before vote

People opposed to China's presence in Tibet and its policies toward Burma and the Darfur region of Sudan held a rally on the City Hall steps before the vote and packed the board chambers. They cheered loudly when the resolution passed.

Supervisors Michela Alioto-Pier, Carmen Chu and Sean Elsbernd voted against the resolution. Chu had written a separate resolution that welcomed both the Olympic torch and the Human Rights Torch and Tibetan Freedom Torch - two alternative events organized by activists and scheduled to happen in the days before the Olympic torch's visit. Her measure, which did not criticize China, was voted down 7-4.

Representatives of the Chinese government, including some officials who have met with supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom about the torch event, have condemned both resolutions, saying that such a statement from the city would hurt San Francisco-China relations.

City leaders, including Newsom, have expressed concerns over the past few weeks that releasing details of the torch route would jeopardize security of the event by encouraging people who want to disrupt or stop the relay.

In discussing the details of the route Tuesday, Newsom pleaded with activist groups to remember that the Olympics are not about politics but about the performance of athletes and "the spirit of unity and the things that unite us."

"Don't protest the torch bearers," Newsom said. "Please separate your condemnation from the person who's running (with the torch) or in a wheelchair carrying the torch."

The torch relay will start with a ceremony at McCovey Cove, travel along the Embarcadero past Fisherman's Wharf and briefly through the Marina District, and head back along the Embarcadero to Justin Herman Plaza. A closing ceremony is scheduled to take place at the plaza.

The event will start at 1 p.m., and it will take the torch about an hour and a half to traverse the approximately 6-mile route. More than 80 people from across North America have been selected to carry the flame. Their names have not been made known.

No permit needed to protest

Newsom said an area in front of the Ferry Building - the route's end - will be designated for protesters. No groups will need a permit to protest, he said, adding that more protesters are expected along the route. It is unclear what has happened to city plans for so-called free-speech zones, originally described as areas for protesters without official city permits.

About 15 groups applied for permits after the city last week removed holds on permits for most of the city's large public areas, according to the Recreation and Park Department, which issues the permits. None have been issued.

An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who pressured the city to release route details and any plans to restrict protesters praised Tuesday's release.

"It's still not clear to me why it has been delayed until this late date, but I'm absolutely pleased the city has released details of the route," said Michael Risher, a staff attorney for the ACLU.

He said some groups had gone ahead with planning for a demonstration without knowing where the torch would be. Those groups are likely to be disappointed that they are far from it, he said.

Newsom has said that early plans for the route included a ride on a cable car, a trip to Alcatraz and even a crossing of the Golden Gate Bridge. Plans to run the torch through Chinatown also were scrapped because of concerns that large crowds would overwhelm the neighborhood's narrow streets.

Mayor's signature unlikely

After Tuesday's vote, Newsom's spokesman Nathan Ballard hinted that the mayor would not sign the measure. He said the mayor has in the past discussed the Tibet situation with both Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the Dalai Lama, the leader of the Tibetan government in exile.

"It is highly unlikely the mayor is going to let Chris Daly put words in his mouth," Ballard said.

The spokesman for the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco has strongly condemned Daly's resolution as well as Chu's alternative resolution, saying that approving either measure would be "an insult to good, friendly relations" between the city and China. Chinese officials did not return calls for comment after Tuesday's vote.

Criticism of Daly

Some in the Chinese community also have criticized Daly's resolution. A letter from the Chinese American Association of Commerce, sent to city offices over the weekend, was signed by 105 Chinese community organizations based in San Francisco.

The letter accuses "demonstrators of anti-China sentiment" of trying to sabotage the torch event.

"While we tried to continue to maintain our peaceful silence among all the noise in the past few weeks, we also need to stand up and speak loud and clear!" the letter reads.

It goes on to say, "We strongly condemn Chris Daly for his breach of duty as supervisor by not listening to the peaceful majority, especially undermining the unified stand and position of the local Chinese community." The letter warns the other supervisors to "prevent the city from being kidnapped by a few political extremists who want to make use of the Olympic Games to advance their own political gain."

The alternative torch events will stop in San Francisco in the days leading up to April 9. The Human Rights Torch will stop in the city Saturday with an event at 11 a.m. at Union Square. The Tibetan Freedom Torch will arrive on April 8 with an event at 11 a.m. at United Nations Plaza and a candlelight vigil at 8 p.m. Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and actor Richard Gere are expected to attend and speak at the vigil.